Bi-Bi to oralismINTRODUCTIONWe would not insist on the fact that blind children must learn visually, in order to develop their sight. The implication of their blindness is obvious. Blind children have little or no vision and their education must be modified to account for this difference. So why do deaf children learn aurally? Although American Sign Language (“ASL”) has been recognized as a real language since the 1960s, the number of deaf children enrolled in schools with sign language programs has declined rapidly (Bollag, 2006). Instead, they were increasingly educated orally alongside their hearing peers in a “traditional” environment. The oral approach emphasizes that deaf children can – and should – learn to lip read and speak, possibly with the help of technology such as hearing aids. or cochlear implants to maximize their hearing ability. At the same time, this method warns against (and in many cases prohibits) the use of ASL, the native and natural language of the deaf. This is based on the theory that the ease of communication afforded by ASL will prevent children from putting enough effort into becoming orally successful adults (Lynas, 2005). The trend of placing children in these programs stems largely from new advances in medical technology, emphasizing the oral approach in education (Bollag, 2006). In the United States, approximately 30,000 children have received cochlear implants since the 1990s (Young, 2012) and this number will only increase. However, nationwide surveys have shown for decades that deaf students graduate with below-average literacy skills and that most read at or below a fourth-grade level (Bollag, 2006). Despite man...... middle of paper ......s (O'Donoghue, 1999). Many parents try to educate their children orally and give them assistive devices, such as cochlear implants and hearing aids, in order to make their child more "hearing" and avoid the deaf world and language of the deaf altogether. signs. However, parents must overcome this fear of the unknown because very few children are able to achieve success through the oral method. It is therefore extremely important to educate the deaf in their own mother tongue and benefit society as a whole. Since the Bi-Bi method is the best way to educate deaf children, it should be implemented in every deaf school. This will allow deaf children to read at the same level as their hearing peers and achieve normal academic success (Lynas, 2005). This will also enable them to realize their maximum potential in education and open up more opportunities for their life after school..